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KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
2016 ILTA Knowledge Management Survey Results
Is someone in your organization dedicated to
supporting lawyers preparing and evaluating fee
estimates?
If your organization uses a system that prepares and
tracks the status of fee estimates and matter prices,
do you make the information available to clients?
Does your organization use full-time Project
Managers that help lawyers manage legal matters?
Yes No No No Unanswered Unanswered Unanswered
36
47
59
42
13
Yes
21
Yes
70 88
68
Alerts to lawyers when costs reach thresholds of estimate or AFA
Budgeting System (third-party or custom-built) that tracks and reports actual costs against quoted fee
Budget templates by maer type
Budgeting tool – custom built
Budgeting tool – third party
Consultation services to help lawyers prepare fee estimates or manage maers
Maer Experience System (data mining for historical fee information)
Maer Financial Dashboards (in real time)
Process Maps/Maer Planning Templates (by maer type)
Professional Development on fee estimates, pricing, or maer managemen
Workflow or Process Automation
Other
Unanswered
Identify any methods and systems your organization uses to help provide fee estimates Graphed by individual choice.
30
29
32
26
16
20
30
35
22
26
11
8
82
